Certificate in Medical Humanities - Freud, Lacan and the Critique of Psychoanalysis CTMP 4301   Freud, Lacan and the Critique of Psychoanalysis
CREDIT HOURS: 3
Is psychoanalysis a medical practice, a method of interpretation, or an account of the social symbolic? The modern skepticism about consciousness and conscious life is most thoroughly voiced in psychoanalytic thought as first developed by Freud and pursued in the work of Jacques Lacan. This course will consider the question of the modern psyche, the nature of symbolic practices in art and literature, and the construction of libidinal economies in society. The central question of the course will concern the way in which the individual subject is incorporated in symbolic practices. The recent attacks on Freud and Freudian methodologies will also be considered.
FORMAT: Seminar